We have an agricultural water ditch running right next to our house.
It's about 4' wide and 3' deep. ( the actual ditch not the water flow )

We thought it would be nice to have some falling water sound in there,
so we could hear it in our yard. So I went and bought 6 concrete blocks
at the store ( 8x8x16 ) and put 3 across the bottom and 3 across on top
of those, but as the water rose in the ditch, the pressure pushed them
all over.

So I put the bottom row back in place and placed the top row back, but
set back a couple of inches towards the water flow, so they wouldn't
topple over. But what that did was create a situation where the water
flows up into the holes in the top row, down into the holes in the
bottom row, and back out through the holes in the bottom row again. It
makes a little waterfall sound but not enough to hear from the house.

How can I do this, so as to keep the water pressure from pushing the
blocks over, and still make the water flow over the top in a nice little
waterfall?

I thought of putting a wood panel up against the blocks from the back,
sort of like a ramp, so the water might flow up and over the top, but
don't know if that would stay in place either.



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- Mama Bear